Commander James Bond is a Senior Operational Officer stationed at MI6 HQ, London.
Height: 6'- 1"
Weight: 185 lbs
Scar on right shoulder.
Signs of plastic surgery on back of right hand.
Expert pistol shot, Judo, Karate, boxer, knife thrower.
Does not use disguises.
Languages:
French, German, Italian, Dutch, Japanese, Russian, Greek
Vices:
Drink - but not to excess - and women
Not thought to accept bribes
ALIASES:
Mr. Fisher (You Only Live Twice)
Sir Hilary Bray (On Her Majesty's Secret Service)
Peter Franks (Diamonds Are Forever)
Mr. Jones (Diamonds Are Forever)
Klaus Hergescheimer, G Section (Diamonds Are Forever)
Burt Saxby (Diamonds Are Forever)
Francisco Scaramanga (The Man With The Golden Gun)
Robert Sterling (The Spy Who Loved Me)
Colonel Luis Toro (Octopussy)
Charles Morton (Octopussy)
James St. John Smythe (A View To A Kill)
James Stock (A View To A Kill)
Jerzy Bondov (The Living Daylights)
Dr. Mikhail Arkov (The World Is Not Enough)
Van Bierk (Die Another Day)
LINEAGE:
Born: West Berlin, Germany, 13 April, 1968
Father: Andrew Bond (deceased)
Born: Father born in Glencoe, Scotland
Education: Fettes, London School of Economics C.V.:
Rutherfords, Ltd.-Junior Clerk - 1 year
Carmichaels & Curry. Ltd. - Investment Agent - 3 years
Vickers Defence Systems (Now BAE Systems Land & Armaments Group) - Various positions. Senior Accounts Manager for five years previous to death.
Mother: Monique delacroix Bond (deceased)
Born: Mother born in Yverdonm Canton de Vaud, Switzerland
Education: Mon Fertile, Morges, Switzerland
"Both parents died in a climbing tragedy while attempting to scale the north-east ridge of the Aiguille de la Perseverance"
EDUCATION: Until age 11, James Bond was educated in Switzerland and Germany, where his father was stationed as a Vickers executive. After the death of his parents, he was privately tutored by his aunt and guardian, Miss Charmain Bond (deceased) of Pett Bottom, Kent.
Ages 12-13: Attended Eton (explled, as the record notes, - for repeated curfew violations and 'trouble' with one of the maids.-)
Ages 13-17:Fettes: Won numerous athletic competions. Twice boxed for the school as a light weight. Formed the first intermural judo league for the public school circuit.
Ages 17-30: Royal Navy
Age 30 - Present: MI6 Operative
MARRIAGE:
Marriages/relationships: He has had many liasons with members of the opposite sex, but none of particular closeness or lenght. James Bond has been married once briefly to the late Contessa Teresa di Vicenzo.
HOBBIES:
James Bond has excelled in solitary sports. He is an avid climber, diver, swimmer, and an excellent runner. During his teens, he spent time studying both climbing and skiing with local Austrian instructor Hannes Oberhauser during term break at Fettes. James Bond does not race cras, but he does enjoy driving very fast. James Bond has gambled at many European casinos, although never to ruin.
MILITARY RECORD:
BRITANNIA ROYAL NAVY COLLEGE
James Bond excelled in all areas of training. He seemed to come into his own upon his entrance into the service. Cdr. Bond marticulated from his coursework at BRNC with passable marks. He excelled. However, whilst excelling at atheletic competions, strategic operations and counter-intelligence courses, but his unconventional approach to his education, his diffedent attitude to certain superiors, and a lack of respect for curfew drew him many demerits. On more than one occasion, a fellow candidate was strongly suspected of lying to protect James Bond from punishment.
SEA SERVICE
James Bond conducted his year of Sea Service with high recommendations from his Chief Petty Officers and Warrant Officers. He applied for and was uniformly recommended for work in Naval Intelligence.
EARLY SERVICE
Bond served as an intelligence officer on HMS Exeter both before and during Operation Granby, and later was able to submarine service, touring on the HMS Turbulent. His natural abilities, mental quickness and confident impressed his commanding officers. Within the year of being assigned to HMS Turbulent, it became apparent that Bond was not being sufficiently challeged with his duties. J Bond volunteered for Special Boat Service.
SPECIAL FORCES TRAINING
James Bond excelled at SC3 and Underwater and Aquatic Warfare training. He constantly equaled or bested his superior officers and instructors in all areas after nominal experience. James Bond earned the distinction of being the only candidate to entirely escape detection during the night limpet placement operation at Plymouth. There was some doubt as to whether Bond had actually accomplished the mission per the assignment until he demonstrated his rather ingenious method of eluding the underwater infra-red cameras and sonar systems in-place. His techniques were rapidly included in future training.
Upon completion of UAW training, James Bond commenced Advance Commando Parachute training at Brize Norton.
Bonds record with training earned him placement with the 030 Special Forces Unit, rather than deployment as a swimmer-canoeist with the standard SBS Units in Poole.
During further training with 030 SFU, Commander Bond earned certifications for the operation of assault helicopters, Harrier-class jets, fixed wing aircraft, hovercrafts, marine assault vessels, armored vehicles, and other crafts.
030 SPECIAL FORCES UNIT
James Bond served with distinction in the 030 Special Forces Unit. He proved adept at training other candidates, initiating athletic competions, and fostering a creative environment. During his three-year tenure with the 030 SFU, Commander Bond rose to the rank of Lieutenant Commander. He saw covert service in Iraq, Somalia, Iran, Libya, and active service in Bosnia - where Bond was credited with saving the lives of nearly 100 men from Serbian militia in one village - Bond was recruited by the RNR Defence Intelligence Group and awarded the rank of Commander.
RNR
Cmd. Bond's work with the Defence Intelligence Group at Defence Intelligence and Security Center, Chicksands, proved highly satisfactory, although his fellow officers noted Bond's rather casual attitude toward command structure and protocol. Cmd. Bond's work provided vital intelligence during key moments with Libya, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Cyprus, Indonesia, China (during the Hong Kong handover) and North Korea. In Libya, Bond was able to secure detailed assessments of the status of the Libyan government's reputed financial ties to numerous terrorist organizations, as well as a crucial information related to the settlement of issues related to the Pan Am 103 case. In Iraq, Cmd. Bond was able to monitor Iraqi conter-moves to the UNSCOM (now UNMOVIC) inspections process during one key period. Cmd. Bond undertook a particularly hazardous mission to Afghanistan to rescue a researcher deemed important to Her Majesty's government who was being imprisoned by the Taliban government. During the S-300 missile crises in Cyprus, Cmd. Bond helped undermine the Republic of Cyprus government's confidence, and, it is felt, helped bring peaceful resolution to the matter. During his tenure at the DI Group RNR, Bond attended specialized courses in Cambridge (where he achieved a first in Oriental languages), Oxford and other institutions. James Bond left the DI Group RNR after recruitment by the MI6.
INTELLIGENCE SERVICE AND RECORD:
Training. London:
Commander Bond completed all orientation and MI6 Covert Operations training in eight weeks. He received exceptionaly high marks for physical endurance, logic, and Psychological Ops exercises.
British Embassy staff, Kingston, Jamaica:
Duties included: translations of Haitian, french and dutch West Indies Communiques, interdiction efforts with gun and drug smuggling between Kingston and London, and four days Black Ops reconaissance into cuba, penetrating military compounds.
British Embassy, senior Advisor, Rome:
James Bond was promoted to Ops specialist simultaneous with this posting. although based nominally in Rome, his duties took him to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran , Lebanon, France, Spain, China and the United States. He worked back-channel sources to aid in solving a minor crisis between the U.S. and China. Bond worked with his former Special Forces Unit to penetrate and gain intelligence on Iraqi military and suspected weapons instillations in late-2002 and early-2003. as per orders of the Foreign Office, all copies of his report have been destroyed.
MI6 Headquarters, London
Bond continued to work as a mission specialist (re:within Black ops) in such locations as Cuba, the United States, Austria, Spain, Russia, the Ukraine, Uzbekistan, the Sudan and the UAE.
FAMILY MOTTO:
"The World Is Not Enough"
"This man is a dangerous professional spy who holds a secret service number with the "00" prefix - giving him a licence to kill"
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Although initially made famous through the novels, James Bond is now probably best known from the EON Productions film series. Twenty films have been made as well as two that were independently produced and one American television adaptation of Fleming's first novel under legal licence.
However, it is generally considered that only the EON films are "official".
Albert R. (Cubby) Broccoli and Harry Saltzman produced most of these up until 1975, when Broccoli became the sole producer.
Barbara Broccoli and Daniel Craig
Michael G. Wilson
From 1995, his daughter, Barbara Broccoli, and his stepson, Michael G. Wilson, jointly continued production duties.
Barry Nelson
The first actor to play Bond on-screen was American Barry Nelson, in the 1954 CBS television production of Casino Royale in which the character became a U.S. agent named "Jimmy Bond." In 1956, Bob Holness provided the voice of Bond in a South African radio adaptation of Fleming's third novel, Moonraker.
Albert R. Brocoli
Harry Saltzman
Sean Connery
Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli started the official cinematic run of Bond in 1962, with Dr. No starring Sean Connery. The films made by their production company, EON Productions are regarded as the "official films" by all parties, although the 3 "unofficial" adaptations were "authorised" to be made.
Since Bond's peak of popularity in 1965, with the release of Thunderball, critics have often predicted that his successful run would come to an end, usually believing that the films were out of touch with the times.
After the release of On Her Majesty's Secret Service, George Lazenby quit the lead role for this very reason, even though he was offered a seven-film contract.
By the 1980s, some critics had grown tired of the series, commenting that the perennial sexism and glamorous locales had become outdated,
and that Bond's smooth, unruffled exterior didn't mesh with competing movies like Die Hard.
The 1990s saw a revival and renewal of the series beginning with GoldenEye in 1995. Pierce Brosnan filled 007's shoes with an elegant mix of the Sean Connery cool and the Roger Moore wit. The combination saw Bond's success return to a level it hadn't enjoyed since 1979's Bond epic Moonraker.
Daniel Craig
In all, Brosnan made 4 films before being replaced in 2006 by Daniel Craig, who will star in a reboot of the series. Although Craig's Casino Royale is the 21st film of the series, it will be Bond's first mission after obtaining his double-O status from MI6.
GAMBLING:
James Bond is an expert card player and gambler and the books Casino Royale and Moonraker both feature gripping card scenes. Casino Royale features Bond playing high stakes against a SMERSH operative at the Baccarat tables in a plot to bankrupt him.
In the latter book he has been asked by M to investigate, in a private capacity, a prominent member of M's club who is suspected of cheating at bridge. Before meeting M at the club, Bond picks up his copy of Scarne On Cards, a guide to cheating, and practices The Mechanic's Grip, Palming and Nullifying the Cut.
In addition to Baccarat and Bridge, James Bond plays Roulette.
In Casino Royale he played complicated progression systems on the even chances while getting his hand in at the tables and in Thrilling Cities, Fleming gives the reader what he believed to be "the only way of gambling with a capital of ten pounds with a reasonable prospect of making the price of a good dinner".
Bear in mind that this was first published in 1963, so inflation has taken hold since being written. The method that Fleming describes is known as the Labouchre system and is as follows:
Change your money into chips of the value of the minimum stake - you need a hundred or so chips. Sit down next to the table opposite the red or black even chance and take out a card on which you write the numbers 1 to 5 down the page. Your first bet, placed on the big red diamond, is the sum of the top and bottom figures on your card - 5 plus 1 equals six chips. If you win, cross out the 5 and the 1 on the card and then bet the sum of the next two top and bottom numbers - 4 plus 2.
However, each time you lose, write the amount of your loss at the bottom of your column. Your next bet is the sum of the top and bottom numbers not scratched out on your card. When all the numbers are scratched out your win will amount to the sum of all the numbers in your original five figure column, or worth fifteen chips.
DRINKS:
"When M. poured him three fingers from the frosted carafe Bond took a pinch of black pepper and dropped it on the surface of the vodka. The pepper slowly settled to the bottom of the glass leaving a few grains on the surface which Bond dabbed up with the tip of a finger. Then he tossed the cold liquor well to the back of his throat and put his glass, with the dregs of the pepper at the bottom, back on the table."
The Vesper(Vodka Martini)
3 measures of Gordon's gin
1 measure of vodka
½ measure of Kina Lillet
Shake until ice cold and serve in a deep champagne goblet with a large thin slice of lemon peel
This cocktail was supposedly concocted by Bond in Casino Royale and named after the heroine. In fact it was a cocktail invented by Fleming and his friend Ivar Bryce.
By the time of Thunderball Bond's daily intake of spirits is around half a bottle of spirits, hence his much needed stay in a health farm ordered by M, but far from the simple "Vodka Martini, shaken, not stirred" and Champagne of the films, James Bond likes a variety of drinks.
In no particular order, these include:
Cocktails such as the Vodka Martini, the Dry Martini, the Vesper, the Old-Fashioned, the Negroni and the Americano. Russian vodka drunk neat and ice cold with caviar or smoked salmon. In Moscow he picked up the habit of dropping a pinch of black pepper on the surface of the drink that sinks to the bottom taking the impurities with it, but he got to like the taste.
Ten year old Cliquot, Dom Perignon, Krug, Pommery or Taittinger champagne served with Beluga caviar or scrambled eggs.
Beefeater or Gordon's gin drunk with tonic and plenty of Angostura bitters plus the juice of a fresh lime if available.
Three fingers of Bourbon served in a tumbler half filled with ice, swilled around to cool it and then drunk in two long draughts, the glass refilled and then drunk slowly.
In Turkey Bond drinks Raki, which he finds identical with Greek Ouzo and Kavaklidere, "a rich course burgundy like any other Balkan wine".
Brandy with soda with a couple of Phensic tablets as a hangover cure, or on the rocks after encountering the wrath of Count Lippe in Thunderball.
Ocasionally Hennessy's Three Star as a finale to a French dinner or brandy with ginger ale on long air trips.
SMOKING and CIGARETTES:
One of James Bond's greatest pleasures is cigarettes and he usually smokes sixty per day of a special Balkan and Turkish mixture with three gold bands on the filter.
The cigarettes are specially made for him by Morland's and carried in a wide, thin cigarette case of black gunmetal with room for fifty.
Ian Fleming smoked similar cigarettes, initially with a single gold band, adding two more when he was promoted to the rank of Commander in Naval Intelligence - the rank is signified by three gold stripes on the cuff. Bond also carries a battered black oxidized Ronson lighter.
While working abroad Bond smokes local brands, such as Chesterfield king-size in the US, and Royal Blend in the West Indies.
DIET:
Although enjoying Beluga caviar served with chilled vodka, James Bond claims to prefer "the ordinary plain food of the country" when abroad. However, the definitive James Bond meal is scrambled eggs with bacon and/or sausages.
James Bond will eat them any time, day or night, with vodka and tonic or Champagne. In the story 007 in New York published in the US version of Fleming's non-fiction travellogue and added to recent editions of Octopussy and The Living Daylights, Ian Fleming gives a recipe for "Scrambled eggs James Bond".
Breakfast
When in London, Bond maintains a simple routine. Sitting down to The Times, he breakfasts on two large cups of "very strong coffee, from De Bry in New Oxford Street, brewed in an American Chemex" and an egg served in a dark blue egg cup with a gold ring round the top, boiled for three and a third minutes.
There is also wholewheat toast, Jersey butter and a choice of Tiptree 'Little Scarlet' strawberry jam, Cooper's Vintage Oxford marmalade and Norwegen Heather Honey from Fortnum and Mason, served on blue Minton china. Breakfast is prepared by May, his Scottish housekeeper, whose friend supplies the speckled brown eggs from French Marans hens.
However, Bond's diet can vary according to where he is in the world. Although a typical hotel breakfast would normally consist of coffee and eggs, Bond's first breakfast in Istanbul in From Russia, With Love is quite different: "The yoghourt, in a blue china bowl, was deep yellow and with the consistency of thick cream. The green figs, ready peeled, were bursting with ripeness, and the Turkish coffee was jet black and with the burned taste that showed it had been freshly ground".
Lunch
While at headquarters Bond routinely eats in the staff canteen. However, he sometimes goes to "Scott's" with best friend in the service, Chief of Staff, Bill Tanner, or with his secretary, Mary Goodnight.
Located in Coventry Street when the books were written, he typically orders dressed crab and Black Velvet or roast grouse and pink Champagne. Scott's moved to Mount Street in Mayfair in the 1970s and celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2001.
Once again in Istanbul, Bond has lunch with the Head of Station T, Kerim Bey. For a starter Kerim recommends a sardine dish that to Bond "tasted like any other fried sardines", followed by a choice that demonstrates that anyone can eat like 007; the Doner Kebab is described to him as "very young lamb broiled over charcoal with savoury rice. Lots of onions in it".
Dinner
James Bond's staple diet seems to consist of grilled sole, veal, steak and French fries or cold roast beef with potato salad.
In Moonraker we find Bond dining in London with M at his private club, Blades.
Bond starts with asparagus and hollandaise sauce, followed by Scottish lamb cutlets with buttered peas and new potatoes and finishes with a slice of pineapple.
On assignment James Bond will eat langouste in France, tagliatelle verdi in Italy or stone crabs and melted butter in the US, but contemptuous of the cream and wine sauces of French cuisine which are designed to hide the poor quality of the meat.
In Live And Let Die he visits Harlem with Felix Leiter, dining on Little Neck Clams and Fried Chicken Maryland at Ma Frazier's on Seventh Avenue.
In Diamonds Are Forever sees 007 back in New York and making the most of the food; lunch at Sardi's after meeting Leiter, where he has Brizzola, dinner at the 21 Club with Tiffany Case, where they eat caviar followed by cutlets with asparagus and mousseline sauce, and the following night Bond dines alone at Voisin's for "two Vodka Martinis, Oeufs Benedict and strawberries".
Miss Money Penney
In both the Bond novels and films based upon them, Moneypenny is smitten with Bond. For example, in the novel Thunderball, Fleming wrote that she "often dreamed hopelessly about Bond." However, she never vocalizes these feelings.
Lois Maxwell
Miss Moneypenny's role in Fleming's novels is even smaller than that of her role in the films. In the novels, Bond also has his own secretary, Loelia Ponsonby and later Mary Goodnight, both of which often had their lines and relationships transferred to Miss Moneypenny for the films. As a rule, Moneypenny generally never directly participates in Bond's missions, although there have been a few exceptions in both film and literature (most notably in the novel Diamonds Are Forever, in which she disguises herself as a customs agent to help send Bond on his mission). In the film Octopussy, Moneypenny has an assistant named Penelope Smallbone, who appears to be equally smitten with Bond, despite a "thorough briefing" on the subject by Moneypenny. Apparently intended as either a foil or a replacement for Moneypenny, Smallbone appeared only the once.
Samantha Bond
Since the character's first appearance in Casino Royale, neither Fleming nor any succeeding Bond novelist or screenwriter had ever seen fit to give Moneypenny a first name. In a few of the books and at least one film, Bond refers to her by the nickname "Penny" (a shortened version of her last name). The Moneypenny Diaries officially gives her a first name: Jane. It remains to be seen if any future Bond film follows suit.
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THE BRANCH OF THE QUARTERMASTER or Q:
John Cleese
Without Q James Bond would have surely been killed on only his second assignment. It's only using Qs attach briefcase that saves his life a number of times throughout From Russia With Love.
Indeed, James Bonds life has been saved many times throughout the series with gadgets supplied by Q branch. Assigned to produce gadgetry to assist 00 agents in the field, Q branch is headed by Q, or Quartermaster.
From 1963 in From Russia With Love until 1999 in The World Is Not Enough, Major Boothroyd, played by legend Desmond Llewelyn, has starred as the famous Q.
Die Another Day saw John Cleese take the role of Q, after being introduced in The World Is Not Enough as R, Q's assistant to replace him after his character retired from MI6 service.
Sadly, Desmond Llewelyn passed away on 19th December 1999 in a road accident at the age of 85 - he will not be forgotten.
Featuring wild, wacky, bizarre and outrageous gadgets, Q branch has certainly produced a wide multitude of gadgets to assist any 00 agent.
It has always been Q's intention that his creations be returned, intact. Consequently, Bond frequently makes quips to Q when most of his gadgets are destroyed or returned in battle worn condition.
As the James Bond films have progressed so has the technology of the gadgets. In From Russia With Love, Bond uses a pager and a phone inside his car.
These so called gadgets might be scoffed at now, but at the time of the film these where state-of-the-art technological marvels. From the first digital watch ever seen, appearing in Live and Let Die to the mobile phone remote control for the BMW 750i, one thing is certain - even today's most advanced gadgetry will be obsolete some time in the future.
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BOND ALLIES:
While James Bond is a first rate, top-class, super secret agent - he wouldn't get very far without help from his friends. From Felix Leiter to Tiger Tanaka, Captain Carter to Kamran Shah, and Valentin Zukovsky to Raoul, Bond has had a variety of allies.
Established in Dr. No, James Bonds allies would take on a variety of guises from one-time allies through re-occurring characters with help from unlikely sources.
Felix from Dr.No
All of James Bonds allies have assisted him in different ways and means throughout the films. Bond finds traditional help from his CIA counterpart and friend, Felix Leiter, useful resources from Marc Ange Dracos empire, and the hidden assets of Tiger Tanaka and the Japanese Secret Service.
Even the most unlikely of allies -Sheriff J.W Pepper and Dolly, have aided Bond in completing his quest.
While these allies have been very helpful to Bond allowing him to complete his mission, it is sometimes Bonds own charm that turns would-be Bond villains into allies that saves the day.
Without the loyalty and love from Tatiana Romanova, Bonds career as a secret agent would have been cut short, and Goldfinger would be a very wealthy man without the assistance of Pussy Galore.
Sadly, being associated with helping James Bond has its drawbacks. Kerim Bey, Vijay and many other allies have paid the ultimate price in providing their unique and irreplaceable talents to help James Bond.
One thing however is certain; James Bond's allies will always provide him with the latest technology, intelligence and assistance when the cards are down, helping the world's most famous secret agent survive to fight another day.
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LICENCE TO DRIVE:
Throughout the Bond series James Bond has been provided with various cars and vehicles with optional extras installed. Ejector seat? Youre joking! one of the many lines audiences have enjoyed during Bonds briefing from Q on his latest vehicle.
As time has progressed, so has technology installed by Q-branch. In the early films Bond was fighting off the villains using oil spills and smoke screens in his Aston Martin DB5.
More recently James Bond has been employing the latest in adaptive camouflage, mobile remote control and GPS satellite navigation in his cars.
Q-Branch has not just modified cars; they have provided Bond with a variety of weird and wonderful vehicles throughout the series. Bond has used the agile Acrostar Mini Jet in Octopussy, unusual Iceberg Boat in a View To A Kill and the outrageous Hovercraft Gondola in Moonraker.
However James Bond isnt the only one who has been using modified vehicles. Since Dr. Nos basic Dragon Tank to Zaos gadget-laden Jaguar XKR, the villains have proven they can compete with the best of Qs inventions.
It can be guaranteed that whether Bond is driven, drives, or encounters these vehicles, the audience will be continually amazed, wowed and inspired by future vehicles to come.
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THE VILLAINS:
"No Mr Bond I expect you to die!"
Many James Bond Villains have tried a variety of assassination attempts, but few have come close to killing the worlds most famous secret agent.
Since the launch of Dr. No in 1962, James Bond has had to deal with an array of memorable James Bond Villains. After nearly becoming half a man at the hands of Auric Goldfinger, placed on an alligators lunch menu by Tee Hee, nearly being drowned by Aristotle Kristatos, and inches from being sliced into small pieces at the order of Franz Sanchez, Bond has survived it all.
The boundaries of the James Bond Villain have for the most part been fixed, but in more recent times these boundaries have become blurred. With manipulative and seductive Villains like Elektra King, and even genetically appearance changed Villains like Sir Gustav Graves, the James Bond Villains are becoming truly challenging adversaries for 007 to face.
The nature of the James Bond Villains has also changed through time. Early villainous schemes were relatively modest; plots to kill James Bond, extortion attempts and the stealing of secrets or technology. The changing times have definitely been reflected in new generations of James Bond Villains.
The Villains schemes are no longer pure fantasy; they are becoming more realistic, albeit with a touch of Bond glamour. The Villains themselves are also changing with the times, taking influences from current affairs and topical issues. However the future unfolds, there will always be Villains to contend with, allowing James Bond to hopefully save the day once more.
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Dr. NO
After stealing the $10 million dollars he offered his services as a scientist to the east and the west but both declined. Now he works for SPECTRE. Dr No's aim is the take revenge of both sides of the globe for their negligence. Dr No offers Bond a place at SPECTRE but Bond declines the offer.
Donald Pleasence 'You Only Live Twice'
Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Telly Savalas - On Her Majestys Secret Service)
Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Charles Grey - Diamonds are Forever)
Auric Goldfinger is a Millionaire industrialist. He is one of the richest men in England. He escaped across the Berlin Wall one Christmas and soon opened a small jewelry store in London. Goldfinger expanded his empire to include factories, biological institutes, horse breeding farms and research facilities. He had the largest private gold reserve in the world, though rumours of smuggling have somewhat tarnished that record.
Emilio Largo is SPECTRE..s Number Two. He given the responsibility of heading up what would be SPECTRE..s most ambitious project to date: stealing two nuclear bombs and holding the world for ransom.
A two faced Carribean criminal with a plan to flood the American heroin market. Kananga cleverly used voodoo to inspire loyalty in his henchmen and fear in his enemies. As Mr. Big, he leads one of the toughest and most organized street gangs in Harlem. As Kananga, under the guise of diplomatic security, he controls one of the largest heroin production centres in the world.
Fransisco Scaramanga is the best, and highest paid hitman in the world. He uses a 23k gold gun that can be disassembled into a lighter, a ballpoint pen, and a cuff link, and the gun fires a golden 4.2 mm bullet. His plans are to monopolize solar power as the worlds energy source.
Carl Stromberg has an underwater city that he lives in, and he has an obsession for the ocean. He plans to use his huge ship to capture 2 nuclear submarines, load nuclear missiles into them, and set them off in New York and Moscow, and then create a new life under the sea.
Hugo Drax has an evil plan not much different from Stromberg. He produces 50 globes with nerve gas capable of killing hundreds of millions of people, but has no effect on animals. He planned to launch the globes towards earth from his space station, and then return to earth later to create a new race.
Harris Kristatos is a smuggler working for the Russians, and tries to sell the ATAC Tracking System to the Russians before the British recover it. He also tries to out smart Bond by trying to make Bond think his competitor is the enemy.
Kamal Khan is a smuggler from India and ends up double crossing his partner Octopussy so he can sell stolen Russian jewelry and detonate a nuclear bomb at an American Air Force base in West Germany.
Max Zorin is a Billionaire who wanted to take control of the miscroship industry by destroying Silicon Valley through a tremendous earthquake. He left the KGB and had the British and the Russains after him. He ends up double crossing his own workers by drowning and shooting them.
Brad Whittaker was an illegal arms dealer who was a failer in the military and had a fascination with wars. Whitaker plans to use Soviet money to buy the drug opium.
Franz Sanchez is an international drug dealer who pays a million dollars to the person who gets him out when he is caught.
Alec Trevelyan is a British spy that supposibly died while on a mission with Bond to destroy a Russian nerve gas factory. Nine years later Bond finds out that he is alive and is the leader of the Russian terrorist organization Janus Sydicate.
Elliot Carver is world wide media baron is the owner of the Caver Media Group Network. He plans to create a war between Britain and China to get broadcast rights in China. He used a stealth ship to sink a British frigate and steale a cruise missile.
Viktor Zokas A.K.A. Renard is an international terrorist. Renard operated in Moscow in 1996, and before that in Pyongyang in North Korea, then in Afghanistan, in Bosnia, in Iraq, in Beirut and Kampuchea. His only objective is chaos. He has connections with the Russian Mafia. He kidnaps Elektra King, the girl of Sir Robert King, an oil tycoon.
Gustav Graves is a famous British entrepreneur. Graves is an energetic and extreme who pushed himself to the edge. He is a ecologist, champion fencer, and developer of the Icarus space program. Graves was an orphan who worked in Argentinean diamond mines in his youth, which lead him to his pursuit and dominance of the diamond trade. Graves owns a lucrative diamond mine in Iceland.
LOCATIONS:
The exciting countries Bond visits all over the world are almost always filmed on location. Only the following countries appear in Bond movies, but were not actually shot on location: Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Albania, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Macau, China, Uganda, Madagascar, Montenegro, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Vietnam, North Korea, Bulgaria, and the USSR. (Although more recent Bond films were shot on location in Russia and Azerbaijan.)
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The Double-0 Agents
There have been many references to other double-0 agents in the film series. 008 is the most notorious, his number is mentioned in multiple films as a threat by M if 007 is incapable of following orders. Over the 19 films to date, 7 different 00-numbers have been introduced into the fold:
001 1st: Bill Fairbanks, assassinated by Fransisco Scaramanga in Beirut in - 007 later investigates in "The Man With The Golden Gun".
002 2nd: A replacement 002 joined 007 on a training mission on Gibraltar and was rather easily captured in "The Living Daylights".
003 was killed in Siberia whilst on a mission to steal a microchip from a Russian factory.
007 finds his frozen body and retrieves the ship, which was hidden in a locket, in "A View To A Kill".
004 Killed by a KGB assassin during the exercise attack on Gibraltar in "The Living Daylights".
006 Alec Trevelyan, believed to have been killed while on a mission with 007 to destroy a Russian chemical weapons facility. 006 later appeared in a new guise as the head of the Janus crime organization in "GoldenEye".
008 is mentioned in multiple films by M, but never appears on screen. He is first mentioned in "Goldfinger" as a backup replacement if 007 fails his mission, and most recently in "The Living Daylights".
009 Killed in East Germany by Mischka and Grischka, the two knife-throwing twins. 009 makes a spectacular entrance to the British Embassy, dressed as a clown and holding a Faberg egg in "Octopussy".
0012 The novelisation of "The World Is Not Enough" lists the agent Bond refers to in the banker's office opening scene as 0012, rather than just "an MI6 agent".
Additional 00-agents are glimpsed in the briefing scenes of Thunderball and The World Is Not Enough, but no additional information about them is provided. Both films suggest that at least one 00-agent is a woman. (In Thunderball, two extras sitting behind Connery, one male and one female, have their faces visible. It is assumed by their actions they are secretaries recording the meeting.) There is fan speculation that suggests that M, being the head of MI6, is also 001, but this is not supported by any novel or film, and in fact Raymond Benson refers to a 001 in his novel, Doubleshot.
Likewise, speculation that only nine 00 ranks are available (001-009) is contradicted by Fleming himself in Moonraker (in which he mentions a 0011), and likewise is contradicted by later writers. However, it is interesting to note that in the aforementioned scene in Thunderball, there are exactly nine seats for the double-0 agents. Bond, who arrives late, takes the only remaining seat: 7th from the door. This strongly suggests that the producers of that movie envisioned there being exactly 9 agents of 00 rank, numbered 1 through 9, except for the fact that in the previous scene, Moneypenny specifically states that every 00 in Europe has been recalled, not every 00 in the world.
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THE BOND GIRLS:
The phrase 'Bond girl' conjures up so many striking images from Ursula Andress emerging from the sea in a bikini, Shirley Eaton naked covered in gold paint, and Honor Blackman's famous introduction. These are but a few of delights bond girls have given the series over the years.
While it's a prerequisite that a bond girl does have to be gorgeous and look absolutely stunning usually wearing as little as possible, this does not make the girls bimbos.
Occasionally this has been true in a number of films, but this is because the character is limited in depth and scope giving the impression the talented actress is like the character she plays.
The bond girls often play highly intelligent roles as villains, other agents and professionals who frequently could play the role of Bond just as well, if not sometimes better than Bond himself.
While the essence of Bond remains